Prayer

I can still remember the question that seemed to be constantly put to me as a teenager.

"If you could either help someone in need or pray what would you do?"

If I said "I would pray" then I would look selfish.

If I said "I would help someone" then the reply would be " Why don't you stop praying and spend all your time helping people?"

Of course a lot of the time the choice is not between helping people and praying but between spending more time in prayer or more time watching the tele.

But if you do spend most of your time helping people, why waste time praying?

But is it such a waste?

For me - and I can not speak for others - praying really does help. After all helping people is not about the quantity of time I spend helping but the quality and sensitivity of my care. I know I get things wrong. I know I do better when I take time to pray.

But prayer is not just about helping me to help others. It's about being part of something incredibly special. If I really believe that in prayer I can talk to and listen to the creative force behind the whole universe then this is really awesome. I can not excuse myself by saying "I do not have the time".

And what is true of me, and of all us individually, is true of churches. We can get so busy we forget to pray. How wrong can you get!

We are planning as a Church to put prayer where it belongs - well and truly at the forefront of Church life.

Join us in prayer as we seek to spend more time talking to and listening to God.

There could hardly be anything more important.

Your friend and Vicar,

Peter

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